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Revenue Sharing at Music Streaming Platforms

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  • Gustavo Bergantiños

    (ECOBAS, Universidade de Vigo, ECOSOT, 36310 Vigo, Spain)

  • Juan D. Moreno-Ternero

    (Department of Economics, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, 41013 Sevilla, Spain)

Abstract

We study the problem of sharing the revenues raised from subscriptions to music streaming platforms among content providers. We provide direct, axiomatic, and game-theoretical foundations for two focal (and somewhat polar) methods widely used in practice: pro rata and user centric . The former rewards artists proportionally to their number of total streams. With the latter, each user’s subscription fee is proportionally divided among the artists streamed by that user. We also provide foundations for two families of methods addressing the rising concern in the music industry to explore new streaming models that better align the interests of artists, fans, and streaming services. One of the families offers a natural compromise between the pro rata and user-centric methods. The other family generalizes the user-centric method while capturing various formalizations of incentives for artists and users.

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  • Gustavo Bergantiños & Juan D. Moreno-Ternero, 2025. "Revenue Sharing at Music Streaming Platforms," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 71(10), pages 8319-8335, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ormnsc:v:71:y:2025:i:10:p:8319-8335
    DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2023.03830
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